NFL Week 1 Betting Recap

NFL Week 1 Betting Recap

– Sportsbook.com had four bettors who each bet $500 at +1500 that there would be a safety in Thursday night’s Green Bay/Seattle game. Packers’ lineman Derek Sherrod was tackled in the end zone late in the third quarter, meaning each of those bettors won $7,500.

– Speaking of opening night props, Sportsbook.com opened Packers fullback John Kuhn at +7000 to score the first touchdown of Thursday’s game and subsequently took “a pretty big loss on that future as result.”

– Via Bet Labs: NFL favorites on Thursday night are now 57-36 ATS for +19.02 units and a 20.5 % ROI since 2004. Read more about a highly profitable Thursday night betting system.

– The Seahawks/Packers game attracted nearly as many bets as the 8 MLB games combined, and doubled the output for Arizona/UTSA College Football game.

– Don’t believe in the 12th man? Seattle is now 58-36 ATS at home and 40-51 ATS on the road since 2003.

– On Friday night we tweeted the following stat from our Bet Labs twitter account:

– The most heavily bet games on Sunday were: New Orleans/Atlanta, Jacksonville/Philadelphia, New England/Miami, San Francisco/Dallas and Indianapolis/Denver.

– The biggest Week 1 line moves were largely caused by injury as St. Louis moved from -6 to -2.5 due to Sam Bradford and Carolina moved from -1.5 to +4 due to Cam Newton. The other big line movers were the New Orleans Saints who moved from a pick ’em to -3 and the Houston Texans who also moved from a pick ’em to -3.

– Although Derek Anderson started in place of Cam Newton in Week 1, Newton (Ribs) is expected to start next Sunday’s game (9/14) against the Detroit Lions. That game is currently off the board.

Only 6 of the 15 NFL opening favorites at CRIS have become bigger favorites. Line has shifted towards the opening underdog in 9 games. — SportsInsights.com (@SportsInsights) September 7, 2014

– Regarding the tweet above, underdogs went 10-3 ATS on Sunday and 1-1 ATS on Monday.

– In Week 1 the under went 9-7 and the under is now 87-71 in Week 1 since the 2005 season. That makes it the single most profitable week to bet the under. In contrast, Weeks 4 (74-51) and 5 (69-55) have been the best weeks for betting overs.

– Betting against the public continues to be profitable with teams receiving less than 35% of spread bets going 7-3 ATS in Week 1. Additionally, the betting system mentioned in our 2014 NFL Betting Against the Public report went 1-0 ATS this weekend as the Bills (+7) upset the Bears 23-20.

– Ravens RB Ray Rice, who had initially been suspended for two games for assaulting his then-girlfriend Janay Palmer, was released by the team on Monday (9/8) after TMZ released footage showing Rice punching Palmer. Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Rice indefinitely shortly thereafter. This news caused the Ravens futures to move from +3300 to +5500 at BetOnline.

– Before the season CG Technologies, once known as Cantor Gaming, posted lines for every single game during the 2014-15 NFL season. It’s only one week into the season have some major discrepancies regarding week 2 lines. Some of the most notable include: